Improvement in revenue-stamps for cigars



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`Improvement 4in Revenue Stampsv4 for Cigars.

No. 131,693. Patenfedsep. 24,1812.

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" UNITED STATES PATENT A OHARLES `EEDERIOI-MARTORANA,`OE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, AssreNOR OF ON E-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO ALBERT E. H. JOHNSON AND J. W. HAMIL- TON JOHNSON, orv WASHINGTON, D. c.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVENUE-STAMPS FOR OIGARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13L6Q3, dated September 24, 1872.

To all whom ttmay concern:

, Be it known that' I, CHARLES FEDERIOI- MARTORANA, a subject of the King Of Italy and now residing at Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore and State of' Maryland, have invented a newand useful Improvement, be-

ing a Revenue and Advertising Cigar-Stamp,

` of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in the attachment to a cigar, while it is being finished in its manufacture, of a revenue-stamp and advertisingslip, which, when the cigar is finished, is firmly connected tO the same in such a manner that cancel the stamp.

Thls revenue-stamp mayalso serve as an adthe removal of said strip from the cigar will "vertising medium in having one surface contain or bear `the device for a revenue-stamp, while the other may bear any advertisement, trade-mark, or other device, as may be desired or lthe entire strip may be used for one or the other purpose separately.

l In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1,3, and 5 represent cigars having such stamp attached and lying fiat against the body of the cigar, thus showing one surface of the Stampstrip; and Figs. 2, 4, and 6 are similar views,

the strip being turned back so as to show the other surface. l

'A in the drawing represents a cigar, from under one of the folds a Of the wrapper of whichprotrudes a stamp-strip, B, made of paper or any other suitable material, but preferably paper, as this will tear or burn, and

thus the stamp can be easily canceled. This stamp-strip may be firmly attached to the cigar .I vunder one of the folds of the wrapper Of the samewhileit is being manufactured, by means of the same paste which is used in securing y the tip of the `wrapperin forming the point Of "the cigar, or by applying a strip previously gummed; but-I do not confine myself to attaching the stamp-stri`p at one end Only, as I may so roll the `strip over the cigar with the wrapper that only` one face 'of the same is visible, thetwo ends ,being held under opposite folds of the wrapper` in such a manner that a portion of the stamp-strip is only visible, but

lthat' the same` cannot be removed without spoiling both stamp and cigar; or the stampstrip may be so arranged that it can be removed without destroying it and the cigar, but that it is destroyed by the lighting of the cigar. In fact, the stamp-stripcan be ar ranged in many `different ways without dethe revenue is extended to every cigar sep-li arately, and that the consumer is made the canceler of the stamp thereof, and itsuniversal use would increase the revenue from this source to the Government to anamount much more than double that now derived from stamping the bOX, in which it is impossible to prevent fraud 5 but, by my improvement, each f cigar carries with it the evidence of the proper tribute having been paid tothe Government. Another great advantage of my invention `is that the price or value Of the cigar is also indicated by the'amount Of the stamp, so that while the invention serves as a means for collecting the revenue italsO serves as a means of determining the brand and price of the cigar, and affords great facility to the consumer in askin g for the particular brand by the number or the stamp thereof.

As a means of advertising it is universal,

cheap, convenient, and attractive, and enters iuto every place,and at all hours of the day and night-the cigar being an article of constant and universal use by all classes of the people.

i What I claim as my invention, and desire tO secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s 4 1. A revenue-stamp or advertising-label attached to a cigar, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

2. A revenue-stamp and advertising-slip secured to a cigar, as described.

The above specification of my improvement, being a revenue and advertising cigar-stamp, signed this 19th day of June, A. D. 1871.

CHARLES FEDERICI-MARTORANA. Witnesses: v

A. E. H. JOHNSON, J. W. HAMlLTON JOHNSON.

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